V I T A
Joanne Cavanaugh Simpson
528 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21204 * 410-821-9592 * [email protected] * [email protected] www.litdeadline.wordpress.com
EDUCATION
Spring 1997 Master of Arts The Writing Seminars Teaching Fellow GPA 4.0 The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland
Fall 1989 Bachelor of Science Journalism/English Spanish minor Graduated cum laude President, Maryland Gymkana Troupe The University of Maryland College Park, MD
TEACHING
Johns Hopkins University, The Writing Seminars
Fall 1997 – present Lecturer
Designed and Taught Introduction to Fiction and Nonfiction Opinion Writing Readings, 20th Century Literary Nonfiction Advanced Reporting Methods Introduction to Nonfiction Senior Thesis Workshop Course
Hopkins’ Advanced Academic Programs, M.A. in Writing Program
Fall 1998 – present Instructor & Advisor
Designed and Taught Contemporary Nonfiction Memoir and Personal Essay Nonfiction & Science Writing Workshop Literary Travel Writing Master Thesis & Publication: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry
ADMINISTRATION
Spring 2002 –Fall 2010 Homewood Advisor Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs M.A. in Writing Program
Advised students on courses, hosted readings and literary events, co-organized Baltimore Writers Conference (2009), assisted director on admission selections and program development, led Open Houses, managed AAP office projects, and fostered program’s literary community outreach.
LITERARY EDITING
Editor, The Three Quarter Review: Poetry & Prose > 75% True, literary journal focused on a Fifth Genre of literature: threequarterreview.com. Published Stephen Dixon, Mary Jo Salter, and others.
Nonfiction Editor, The Baltimore Review, national literary journal, 2006 to present
Co-editor PennUnion, M.A. in Writing Program Thesis project journal
PUBLICATIONS
Books: Literature on Deadline, Caldwell Publishing/Pacific Isle, 2007
Essays published in books: “Multitasking State of Mind,” Signs of Life in the USA, Bedford/St. Martin’s 2009 “Dear J.D. Salinger,” Letters to J.D. Salinger, Univ. of Wisconsin Press 2002
Work in Progress Imperfect Balance A Collection of Essays
Essays & Articles include: “Toughen Up, Marylanders,” The Baltimore Sun, January 2014 “Motherhood on Ice,” Style Magazine, June 2013 “A Disorder Comes of Age: In the Case of Diseases Like Anorexia Nervosa, 40 Seems to be the New 14. The Question is Why?” Style Magazine, February 2013 “An Unhealthy Fear,” The Baltimore Sun, November 2012 “The Re-education of J.C. Simpson” The Connecticut Review Spring 2011 Performed on WYPR “The Signal” Summer 2011 “Everything Must Go,” The Baltimore Sun August 2011 “Branching Out” Urbanite Magazine Fall 2010 “The Letter,” You Must Be This Tall to Ride Spring 2010 “Authority Figure” Utne Reader, Urbanite September 2008 “My Conversation with Andrei” --poet Andrei Codrescu, Baltimore Review 2006 “Multitasking State of Mind,” The Johns Hopkins Magazine 2006 (oft-cited) “Breastfeeding Blues” Style Magazine, 2003 “My Father’s Flag,” Creative Nonfiction Fall 2001
PROFESSIONAL & JOURNALISTIC WRITING
Numerous articles and essays—including narrative magazine writing, investigative journalism, foreign correspondence, and newspaper reportage on Miami City Hall, women’s issues, abortion politics, Hispanic affairs, and other topics.
Freelance Writer 1996 to present: Work also published in USA Today, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, American Journalism Review, The Baltimore Sun and other venues. Foreign reportage accomplished in Cuba, India, Argentina, Nepal and China.
Johns Hopkins Magazine, Senior Writer, July 1997 to January 2003
Articles of note: “Space Weather,” September 2002 issue www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0902web
“Language by the Numbers,” November 2002 www.jhu.edu/jhumag/1102web
“Looking for Amelia,” June 2002 www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0602web
“Pregnant Pause,” September 2001 issue www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0901/web
“Seeing Red,” Owen Lattimore, Sept. 2000 www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0900web
“The Postdoc’s Plight,” February 1999 issue www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0299web/postdoc.html
“’C’ is for Capitalism,” China, September 1999 www.jhu.edu/jhumag/0999web/nanjweb.html
The Miami Herald, Staff Writer, December 1992 to August 1996
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Staff Writer, October 1989 to December 1992
PRESENTATIONS, READINGS & PANELS
“The Art of Memoir,” Conversations & Connections,” Philadelphia, Fall 2012
“Cross-Genre Dressing: Fiction and Nonfiction Techniques,” Conversations & Connections Writers Conference, Washington., D.C. 2010
“Literary Nonfiction: The Long and Short of It.” Baltimore Writers’ Conference 2009
“Creative Nonfiction” Conversations & Connections Conference, Washington D.C. 2007
AWARDS AND HONORS
Excellence in Teaching Award, Johns Hopkins University’s Advanced Academic Programs, Fall 2011
National Bronze Medal, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Issues in Higher Education, 2002
Sibley Award, National CASE Award, Outstanding University Magazine, Hopkins Magazine, 1998
Goldsmith Research Award, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Joan Shorenstein Center: Dissident Journalists in Cuba, 1996
Florida Press Club, First Place: Excellence in Government Reporting, 1996 Series on Miami city pension scams, The Miami Herald
Southern Journalism Awards, National Finalist: Police K-9 abuses, 1991 Series on abuses by police K-9 units, The Sun-Sentinel
William Randolph Hearst National Journalism Awards, Fifth Place, 1989
ARTICLES & REFERENCES: Available Upon Request